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January 4, 2024
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Sarasota, Fla. – U.S. Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.-17) has signed on as a cosponsor of the bipartisan H.R.4757, Stop Animal Analysis Grants In another country (CARGO) Act, which might bar the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) from investment animal exams in overseas laboratories. This follows PETA’s 18-month investigation into U.S.-funded animal experimenters in Colombia that resulted in the shutdown of 2 animal laboratories.
Between 2011 and 2021, NIH gave roughly $2.2 billion in taxpayer cash to 200 overseas organizations to fund 1,357 grants and contracts involving experiments on animals. The cash went to 45 international locations, together with China, Colombia, and Russia. The CARGO Act would terminate such U.S. govt giveaways, saving the lives of numerous animals who would have differently been victimized in experiments.
NIH has funded overseas laboratories through which experimenters addict canines to opioids and power them to head thru withdrawal, purpose strokes in monkeys, take away mice’s eyes, infect bats with coronaviruses—probably environment the level for the following pandemic—feed amphetamines and alcohol to mice, force-feed poisonous elements to beagles, and extra.
“The U.S. can’t proceed sending American citizens’ hard earned cash out of the country and now not being attentive to what’s executed with it,” says Rep. Steube. “The loss of oversight simplest results in corruption and abuse, and the CARGO Act will put a forestall to that.”
“PETA thank you Rep. Steube for his sturdy management,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “It’s now not regularly you get a invoice that protects animals, science, and U.S. taxpayers . The CARGO Act does simply that.”
The bipartisan invoice was once presented via Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.-01) and Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas-22) and has to this point been cosponsored via Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.-01), Brian Mast (R-Fla.-21), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.-01), Don Davis (D-N.C.-01), Man Reschenthaler (R-Pa.-14), Zachary Nunn (R-Iowa-03), Dean Phillips (D-Minn.-3), Jill Tokuda (D-Hawaii-02), Susan Wild (D-Pa.-07), and Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.-04).
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please consult with PETA.org, pay attention to The PETA Podcast, or practice the crowd on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.